Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team and co-owner of the Landmark Theaters cinema chain, has acquired a 9.4% stake in Carmike Cinemas, according to a regularly filing on Monday.

Howard Stern's getting a new neighbor in his extraterrestrial neighborhood. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is getting his own midday Sunday talk show on Sirius Satellite Radio starting this summer. The Dallas billionaire will air on Sirius Stars channel 102, right next to Stern's two Sirius channels.

The country's largest theater chains are snubbing the film "'Bubble" because they object to it being sold on DVD and shown on cable TV the same day it debuts in theaters. The move comes as new technology is giving consumers faster access to content via multiple devices.

Bubble, Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh's ultra-indie about dirty dealings at an Ohio doll factory, will be available for sale on DVD within days of its release in a handful of theaters Jan. 27, the same day it's available on TV's video-on-demand services.

Google Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are helping to finance a friend's independent film. The Internet moguls are the executive producers of Reid Gershbein's Broken Arrows, about a man who loses his pregnant wife in a terrorist attack and then takes a job as a hit man.